Self- Love
As I was reading “Eight Bites” in Her Body and Other stories, it was also reading my soul. The one thing that will get a trial argument out of me is someone or something making a person feel like they can not be themselves. If you can not be yourself in a world with over 7 billion people, then who can you be? It made me think of a tweet I had seen recently, which will be included at the bottom of this. For those that do not know the woman on the left is Coi Leray, the middle is Megan Thee Stallion, the right is Lizzo. This photo is my point of view that I want to share with everyone. No matter what you look like, how you are built, if you pay for plastic surgery, or surgery to get things fixed or shaped someone will always have a negative comment to say about you. In the eyes of society and the world there is nothing a woman to be perfect or to be fully accepted without judgment. You have to love yourself for who you are because at the beginning and the end of the day, you’re all you have.
“Eight Bites” is a story about weight loss and not accepting yourself the way you are. Self hate is promoted within this story. The main character’s mother even told her that eight bites are all woman needs to eat. I do not know about everyone else, but I know that eight bites of any type of food is not enough for me. The author actually shows how easy it is to pass down self hate to other generations after you. She even shows how woman are basically pushed to conform to the society’s norms. The main character shouldn’t have felt the need to be like her other two sisters or only take eight bites of her pasta because that’s the norm. #Be Your Own Type of Beautiful!
Knock !Knock! Who’s there? Women acceptance. Women acceptance who? Women acceptance in society. Sorry we cannot let you in.
The author wrote a story before “Eight Bites” called “Real Women have Bodies”. This story is really deep and actually one of my favorites. It shows how a woman personality and soul basically fades by being controlled by their body image. I believe that the fashion world/ industry today oppresses women to be built a certain way and present themselves a certain way. In the story, the owner was selling dresses and they were moving on their own volition because the women’s body was literally sewn into each piece.
I love how the author put “Eight Bites” and “Real Women have Bodies” right after each other. They pick up where the other one left off and can even be seen as a cause and effect storyline. Due to the fashion industry and other putting pressure on the female appearance, it causes the women in society to have low self-esteem and confidence in their nature selves.